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term: "Automation bias"
category: "AI risks and safety"
url: https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/automation-bias
source: AgenticOpenFinance glossary
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# Automation bias

> The tendency of people to rely, or over-rely, on the output of an automated system.

Automation bias is the tendency of people to rely automatically, or to over-rely, on the output of an automated system, including when it is wrong. The EU AI Act names it explicitly, requiring that people assigned to oversee a high-risk AI system be enabled to remain aware of this tendency. For agents, approval screens that people click through by habit are a sign of automation bias, so oversight design has to keep reviews meaningful and rare enough to be real.

Related terms: [Human oversight](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/human-oversight.md), [AI literacy](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/ai-literacy.md), [Confabulation](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/confabulation.md), [Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication (CIBA)](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/ciba.md)